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| 5613698620 | T/F: After President Harrison's death, Vice President John Tyler carried on the strong Whig policies of party leaders like Clay and Webster | False, Tyler turned away from the Whig policies of Clay and Webster | 0 | |
| 5613711446 | T/F: By the 1840s, American relations with British Canada were largely peaceful | False, there continued to be border disputes and tensions between the United States and British Canada | 1 | |
| 5613732872 | T/F: The Aroostook War, over the Maine boundary, was settled by a territorial compromise in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty | True | 2 | |
| 5613722143 | T/F: A primary motive driving Americans to annex Texas was fear that the Lone Star Republic would become an ally or protectorate of Britain | True | 3 | |
| 5613741976 | T/F: Texas was annexed by a simple majority resolution of both houses of Congress because the two-thirds vote necessary for a treaty of annexation could not be obtained in the Senate | True | 4 | |
| 5613747863 | T/F: The British claim to the disputed Oregon country was considerably strengthened by the thousands of British settlers in the region supported by the Hudson Bay's Company | False, they brought few actual settlers to OR; it was Americans who largely settled there | 5 | |
| 5613759961 | T/F: In the election of 1844, Clay lost to Polk partly because he tried to straddle the Texas annexation issue and thus lost antislavery support | True | 6 | |
| 5613767936 | T/F: Polk's victory in the election of 1844 was interpreted as a mandate for Manifest Destiny and led directly to the annexation of Texas and a favorable settlement of the Oregon dispute | True | 7 | |
| 5613772867 | T/F: President Polk proved unable to implement his four-point program for his presidency because of strong opposition from anti0imperialist Whigs | False, he fulfilled every four major goals | 8 | |
| 5613777277 | T/F: The immediate cause of the Mexican War was an attempt by Mexico to reconquer Texas | False, it was a dispute over the southern boundary of Texas | 9 | |
| 5613782386 | T/F: Polk's primary objective in fighting the Mexican War was to obtain California for the United States | True | 10 | |
| 5613787739 | T/F: The overwhelming American military victory over Mexico led some expansionist Americans to call for the United States to take over all of Mexico | True | 11 | |
| 5613791113 | T/F: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo added Texas to the territory of the United States | False, it was already apart of the US | 12 | |
| 5613796904 | T/F: The outcome of the Mexican War became a source of continuing bad feeling between the United States and much of Latin America | True | 13 | |
| 5613802221 | T/F: The Wilmot Proviso prohibiting slavery in territory acquired from Mexico enabled the slavery issue to be temporarily removed from national policies | False, it forced the slavery controversy to the center of national politics | 14 | |
| 5613808707 | The conflict between President Tyler and Whig leaders like Henry Clay took place over issues of | banking and tariff policy | 15 | |
| 5613812144 | Among the major sources of the tension between Britain and the United States in the 1840s was | American involvement in Canadian rebellions and border disputes | 16 | |
| 5613815360 | The Aroostook War involved a | battle between American and Canadian lumberjacks over the northern Maine boundary | 17 | |
| 5613818741 | During the early 1840s, Texas maintained its independence by | establishing friendly relations with Britain and other European powers | 18 | |
| 5613827712 | Britain strongly supported an independent Texas other than | Britain was interested in eventually incorporating Texas into the British Empire | 19 | |
| 5613836803 | Texas was finally admitted to the Union in 1844 as a result of | President Tyler's interpretation of the election of 1844 as a mandate to acquire Texas | 20 | |
| 5613843869 | Manifest Destiny represented the widespread nineteenth century American belief that | God had destined the United States to expand across the whole North American continent | 21 | |
| 5613851584 | The British finally agreed to concede to the United States the disputed Oregon territory between the Columbia River and the 49th parallel because | they did not really want to fight a war over territory that American settlers might overrun | 22 | |
| 5613856572 | Henry Clay lost the election of 1844 to James Polk primarily because | his attempt to straddle the Texas annexation issue lost him votes to the antislavery Liberty party in New York | 23 | |
| 5613860218 | The direct cause of the Mexican War was | Mexico's refusal to sell California to the United States | 24 | |
| 5613867283 | President Polk was especially determined that the United States must acquire San Francisco from Mexico because | the harbor of San Francisco Bay was considered the crucial gateway to the entire Pacific Ocean | 25 | |
| 5613871374 | The phrase "spot resolutions" refers to | Congressman Abraham Lincoln's resolution demanding that President Polk specify the exact spot, on American soil, where American blood had supposedly been shed | 26 | |
| 5613881761 | The brilliant American military campaign that finally captured Mexico City was commanded by General | Winfield Scott | 27 | |
| 5613886048 | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War provided for | American acquisition of about half of Mexico and payment of several million dollars in compensation | 28 | |
| 5613888431 | The major domestic consequence of the Mexican War was | a sharp revival of the issue of slavery | 29 |
